Improvement in cartridges



E. GOMEZ. Cartridge;

Patented Jan. 25, 1870.

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7 lead is cast, as seen in Fig. 2; wood or other material, entering a hole that UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

EDWIN GOMEZ, OF NEW YORK,-N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRIDGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 99,078, dated January 25, 1870.

city and State of New York, have inventedaud made a new and useful Improvement in Cartridges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a correct description of the same.

In Letters Patent granted August 24, 1858, No. 21,253, a cartridge is shown-in which an explosive compound is spread upon a strip of paper. The same is then rolled up and introduced within a case, that is fastened to the ball by string tied around the same.

My present invention is an improvement upon the said patent, the same relating to the mode of connecting the ball to the roll of paper, and to the mode of firing the explosive compound.

In the drawing I have shown the said cartridge in the separate views and sections here after referred to, so as to illustrate the modifications made use of.

In the drawing, a is the ball, and b the roll of paper, coated with an explosive composition, as in the aforesaid patent; and I remark, that paper, muslin lined with paper, or other sheet material may be employed for receiving the coating of explosive material.

To connect the ball more firmly to the roll of paper, and prevent them becoming separated, I make use of a central pin, 0. The same is either a prolongation of the ball itself, as seen in Figure 1, or else a metal pin driven into the base of the ball, or around which the passes into or through the axis of the ball, as

seen in Fig. 3. In all these cases the stiff central pin supportsthe roll of paper.

According to the peculiar cartridge, .01 the use to which the same is to be employed, so the center-pin is to be of one material or another. When a metal pin is used, it may detach from the ball as the ball is projected and that may be the casewhen wood is used, or either one or the other may remain as a wing, to insure the true flight of the ball, the paper being stripped off as the ball leaves the gun.

It is important that the roll of paper containing the explosive material should be bound tightly, to prevent the powder shaking out, and also to insure the drawing out.of the gun or else a pin of of the entire remnants of the paper, in cases where these cartridges are used as muzzleloaders. My cartridges, however, are equally adapted to breech-loadin g fire-arms. To effect these objects I bind the said roll tightly upon the outside with fine wire.

Fig. 4 shows an elevation of the said cartridge bound with wire. This wire 2' may be attached to the base of the ball, pass through the cent'er of the roll, and be twisted around In order to fire the said cartridge, I make use of fulminate, introduced at the rear of the same, in a flanged cap, 0, setting within the paper I), the rim or flange preventing the cap being pressed forward when the cartridge isfired by a perforating needle-hammer striking into the cap and exploding the fulminate; or the rear end of the pin 0 may receive a cap, as in Fig. 1, to be struck by a hammer, that passes through the rear of the breech-pin.

The detonating-capmaybe held to the rear end of the roll of paper by points. projecting in between the folds. v

The Wire i may be attached to the ball by passing into a groove across the base, afterward closed on the wire; or the lead may be cast around the wire.

This improvement upon the aforesaid patent renders the cartridge better adapted to general use, both in breech-loading and muzzleloading firearms.

The roll of paper may be made water-proof by any suitable varnisln-or the ends be closed by a varnish, to retain the powder within the roll, and, when desired, the paper or other fibrous material may be soaked in alum-Water, or other material that will prevent the paper catching fire and smoldering from the explosion.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- I The wire may pass nected to the ball a, in combination with the tervening explosive compound, substantially roll I), inolosing the explosive material beas set forth.

tween the layers of paper or other material In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my forming such roll, substantially as set forth. signature this 4th day of September, 1869.

2. The detonating-cap, applied substan- Witnesses: EDWIN GOMEZ. tially as specified, in combination with the CHAS. E. SMITH, roll of paper or similar material, with the in- GEO. D. WALKER. 

